【全优课堂】年秋高中英语人教版必修五同步课件：Unit 1.pptVIP

配人教版 英语 必修5 Unit 1　Great scientists In 1812, he began attending the lectures of Sir Humphry Davy, a prominent scientist and experimentalist, who lectured at the Royal Institution of Great Britain. In 1813, Davy hired Faraday as a bottle washer and his assistant. After six months, Faraday was doing chemical experiments and preparing explosive materials. When he was twenty, Faraday began lecturing at the Royal Institution. His lectures were dramatic and impressive. Faraday was the first scientist to recognize that a magnetic field(磁场) could produce a current(电流). Faraday is also credited with the invention of a primitive electric motor. This motor was the first device that used an electric current to make an object move. Albert Einstein said that, “Faraday had made the greatest breakthrough in physics since Isaac Newton.” In 1867, Faraday died in his home study. The equipment he used to conduct experiments are still displayed in his magnetic laboratory at the Royal Institution of Great Britain. Read the passage above and answer the following questions. 1．What kinds of work did Michael Faraday do before he did chemical experiments and prepared materials? 【答案】He became an apprentice to a bookseller and then worked as a bottle washer and Davys assistant. 2．What was a primitive electric motor? 【答案】A primitive electric motor was the first device that used an electric current to make an object move. 配人教版 英语 必修5